News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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2019
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2020
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Workshop: Applications of Corpus Linguistics Methods for Socio-Legal Research, Birmingham
Centre on Emotion and Law: Launch event, London
Redressing Historical Institutional Abuse and Sexual Violence in Transitional Societies, Belfast: call for papers
The Impact of the Medical Profession on Abortion Laws in Transitional and Post-Conflict Societies, Birmingham
UK Agriculture Policy: Sustainability in post-Brexit Britain, Leicester
'Let’s Talk about the Boteros: Law, Memory, and the Torture Memos at Berkeley Law', London
LSAANZ Conference: Survive, thrive, die, Gold Coast, Australia: call for abstracts
Urban Development and Spatial Justice after Apartheid: Pitfalls and possibility, London
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
SLSA 2019, University of Leeds: registration closes on 26 March 2019
Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and methods, Berlin
Impact and Law Reform Conference, London: registration now open
Here Versus There: Beyond comparison in queer and sexuality politics, Maynooth University, Ireland
Law at the Margins of the City, London
Socio-Legal Methodology Master Class, Oxford: save the dates!
The Perennial Problem of Disclosure – A way forward?, Bristol
Legal Designs: Concepts, methods, norms and examples, London
2019
March
Consumer ADR: Delivering fairness and justice for consumers, business and markets
Date: 18–19 March 2019
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
Please see flyer for details of this Centre for Socio-Legal Studies event.
Urban Development and Spatial Justice after Apartheid: Pitfalls and possibility
Date: 19 March 2019
Venue: University of Westminster, London
Speaker: Philip Briel, practising architect, urban-designer and artist
Title: Pitfalls and possibility in Philippi: reflections on sustainable urban development after apartheid
Please see website for details.
Professor Colin Mayer CBE: Centre for Business Law and Practice annual lecture
Date: 20 March 2019
Venue: Maurice Keyworth Building, Business School, University of Leeds
Please see website for details.
Decolonizing the Curriculum Project: Student-led conference
Date: 20 March 2019
Venue: University of Kent at Canterbury
Facilitator: Dr Suhraiya Jivraj
Please see attachment for full details.
'Let’s Talk about the Boteros: Law, Memory, and the Torture Memos at Berkeley Law'
Date: 20 March 2019
Venue: Transnational Law Institute, King's College London
Speaker: Professor Laurel E Flecther, University of California Berkeley
Please see website for details.
Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop
Date: 21 March 2019
Venue: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Please see attachment for details.
The 'Acceptable' Cartel? Horizontal agreements under competition law and beyond
Date: 22 March 2019
Venue: London School of Economics and Political Science
This is a workshop reflecting McEllistrim v Ballymacelligott Co-Operative Agricultural and Dairy Society Limited [1919] AC 548. Please see website for details.
Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference
Dates: 22–23 March 2019
Venue: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Please see website for details.
Centre on Emotion and Law: Launch event
Date: 23 March 2019
Venue: 11 Bedford Square, London
Please see webpage for details of this free event.
Law at the Margins of the City
Date: 26 March 2019
Venue: Birkbeck School of Law, London
International keynote speakers: Raquel Rolnik is a professor of architecture and urbanism at the University of São Paulo and former UN rapporteur for Adequate Housing; Denise Ferreira da Silva is the director of the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice and professor at the University of British Columbia.
Please see poster and website for details and booking: the programme is also available. This event is supported by the SLSA under our Seminar Competition.
April
The Impact of the Medical Profession on Abortion Laws in Transitional and Post-Conflict Societies
Date: 4 April 2019
Venue: Harding Building, University of Birmingham
Organisers: Atina Krajewska and Mairead Enright, Birmingham Law School
Please see website for full details.
BSA Early Career Event
Date: 6 April 2019
Venue: University of Aberdeen
Please see flyer for details of the British Sociological Association event.
Globalization of Environmental Law and the Role of Emerging Economies: call for papers
Date: 6 April 2019
Venue: University of Cologne, Germany
Please see website for details. Call closes: 15 March 2019.
Sustainable Taxation: Global challenges and legal solutions
Dates: 8–9 April 2019
Venue: University College of Gävle, Sweden
Please see attachment for details.
Association of Law Teachers Conference: Legal Education for the Many
Dates: 8–9 April 2019
Venue: Hugh Aston Building, De Montfort University, Leicester
Keynote speaker: Karon Monaghan QC
Please see website for details and registration. Contact for enquiries: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Women's Legal Landmarks: In conversation – Joanne Conaghan and Alison Diduck
Date: 10 April 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Speakers: Joanne Conaghan – A Brief Summary of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1854; Elizabeth Woodcraft – Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, 1981-2000
Please see website for details of this free event.
Current Issues in Judicial Diversity
Date: 11 April 2019
Venue: Queen Mary University of London, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
Please see poster and website for details this free event.
British Association of Comparative Law: Postgraduate research workshop on comparative law
Dates: 11–12 April 2019
Venue: Lancaster University
Please see website for details.
How Did Forensic Science Help Identify Richard III? BAFS Friend's Dinner
Date: 11 April 2019
Venue: Chapter Hall, St John's Gate, London
Speaker: Professor Sarah Hainsworth OBE
Please see website for details.
Workshop on Security, Borders and International Development: Intersections, convergence and challenges
Dates: 25–26 April 2019
Venue: University of Warwick
This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition. Please see attachment for details.
Law–Religion–Politics: call for papers
Dates: 26–27 April 2019
Venue: University of Wrocław, Poland
Please see attachment and Facebook page for details. Closing date: 22 March 2018.
Future Choices: Keeping Europe Intact – A children’s rights conference
Dates: 26–27 April 2019
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
Please see attachment for details and programme. Please see website for registration.
May
Trust, Risk, Information and the Law Conference: Caring for critically ill children in the glare of digital media
Date: 1 May 2019
Venue: University of Winchester
Please see website for booking and attachment for full details.
Intentional Education Design for Well-being: workshop
Date: 2 May 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Organised by the Legal Education Research Network in conjunction with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Please see website for details.
UK Agriculture Policy: Sustainability in post-Brexit Britain
Date: 3 May 2019
Venue: Hugh Aston Building, De Montfort University, Leicester
Organiser: Dr Irene Antonopoulos, De Montfort University
Please see website for details.
Socio-Legal Seminar Series: Law's Wars, Law's Trial
Date: 5 May 2019
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Manor Road, Oxford
Speaker: Professor Richard L Abel, UCLA Law
Please see flyer for details.
Laypersons in Law
Dates: 9–10 May 2019
Venue: Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany
Organised by Humboldt University, Berlin, and the University of Magdeburg. Please see website for details.
How to get a PhD in Law: Day Three on 'Researching, disseminating and publishing in the digital world'
Date: 10 May 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
This day will cover: the PhD in law in the digital world; legal writing; disseminating your legal research; getting your research published in journals; what books are law publishers looking to publish; publishing in Open Access online law journals; tips on keeping up to date with your research topic after completion. See website for details.
Populism in the Age of Brexit
Date: 13 May 2019
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
Speaker: Professor Neil Walker, Regius Professor of Public Law, University of Edinburgh
Please see website for details.
Human–Forest Relations in England: Equity and inclusion in law, ecology and society
Dates: 13–15 May 2019
Venue: Great Oak Hall, Westonbirt Arboretum, Tetbury, Gloucestershire
Please see website for details of this workshop.
Law and Psychology Conference 2019
Date: 15 May 2019
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
Please see attachment for details.
Women's Legal Landmarks: In conversation – Máiréad Enright and Fiona de Londras
Date: 15 May 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Speakers: Máiréad Enright – Health (Family Planning) Act 1979; Fiona de Londras – Thirty-Sixth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, 2018
Please see website for details of this free event.
Association for Law, Property and Society Annual Meeting
Date: 16–18 May 2019
Venue: Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, New York
Please see website for details.
Workshop: Applications of Corpus Linguistics Methods for Socio-Legal Research
Date: 20 May 2019
Venue: School of English, Birmingham City University
This BA/Leverhulme Research Grant-funded event is free, but please visit the website to register.
The Role of Plants, Fungi and Algae in Environmental Forensics
Date: 20 May 2019
Venue: Guy's Campus, King's College London
Please see flyer for details.
20th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law
Dates: 23–25 May 2019
Venue: Instituto Jurídico da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra (UCILeR - University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research), Coimbra, Portugal
Theme: The limits of law
Please see flyer for details.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2019: Dignity
Dates: 30 May–2 June 2019
Venue: Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, USA
Please see website for details.
June
Digitized Global Mobilities
Dates: 3–4 June 2019
Venue: Utrecht University, Netherlands
Please see website for details.
Canadian Law and Society Association/Association Canadienne Droit et Société Annual Meeting
Dates: 3–5 June 2019
Venue: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Please see website for meeting details.
CKOP Event: The ethical responsibilities of professionals in a climate of uncertainty – an unconference
Date: 5 June 2018
Venue: Open University in London
This event is organised by the Centre for Knowledge in Organisations and Professions. Please see website for details.
Therapeutic Justice in the Uk: First meeting
Date: 6 June 2019
Venue: The Open University, Milton Keynes
Organisers: Dr Anna Kawalek (Trustee for the International Society of Therapeutic Jurisprudence) and Dr Emma Jones (Member of the Advisory Board for the International Society of Therapeutic Jurisprudence)
Please see website for detail of this free International Society for Therapeutic Justice event.
Redressing Historical Institutional Abuse and Sexual Violence in Transitional Societies: call for papers
Date: 7 June 2019
Venue: Human Rights Centre, Queen's University Belfast
Keynote speaker: Professo Anne-Marie McAlinden, Queen's University Belfast
Please see flyer for full details. Closing date for submission of abstracts: 5 April 2019.
Institute of Commercial and Corporate Law Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 2019: call for papers and posters
Date: 10 June 2019
Venue: Durham Law School
Please see poster and website for details. Closing date: 19 April 2019.
Impact and Law Reform Conference
Date: 11 June 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Registraiton now open. Please see webpage for details.
ASLI Conference: The rule of law and the role of law in Asia
Dates: 11–12 June 2019
Venue: Asian Law Institute, Faculty of Law, Bukit Timah Campus, National University of Singapore
Please see website for details.
Women's Legal Landmarks: In conversation – Lois Bibbings and Teresa Sutton
Date: 12 June 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Speakers: Lois Bibbings – Section 5(1) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885; Teresa Sutton – R v Jackson (1891)
Please see website for details of this free event.
Here Versus There: Beyond comparison in queer and sexuality politics
Date: 17 June 2019
Venue: Maynooth University, Ireland
Please see website for details. This is an SLSA-supported event under our Seminar Competition.
Corruption, Democracy and Human Rights: Exploring new avenues in the fight against corruption
Dates: 20–21 June 2019
Venue: European University Institute, Florence, Italy
This is a joint event organised by Portsmouth Law School and the European University Institute. Please see website for details.
Advocacy and Vulnerable Witnesses: 20 years on from the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999: call for papers
Date: 21 June 2019
Venue: Centre for Advocacy, Nottingham Law School
Please see flyer for details. Call closes: 1 April 2019.
Rethinking Property Approaches in Resources for the Circular Economy: call for papers
Date: 21 June 2019
Venue: Coventry Law School, Coventry
Further information available on the conference website or on the attached call for papers.
UCLan Cyprus: PGR law conference 2019: call for papers
Date: 21 June 2019
Venue: UCLan Cyprus
Please see website for details. Closing date: 3 April 2019
Labour Law Research Network LLRN4 Valparaíso: A global conversation on labour law
Dates: 23–25 June 2019
Venue: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Please see website and attachment for details of call.
International Critical Management Studies Conference: 'Being open to Care, Being Open about Care'
Dates: 27–29 June 2019
Venue: The Open University, Milton Keynes
Please see website for details.
July
Monstrous Ontologies. Politics, Ethics, Materiality: call for papers
Date: 1 July 2019
Venue: Roehampton University, London
Please see website for details. Closing date for abstracts: 1 March 2019.
The Perennial Problem of Disclosure – A way forward?
Date: 5 July 2019
Venue: Bristol Law School, UWE Bristol
Please see website for details. This event has been organised under the SLSA's Seminar Competition.
IVR 2019: Special Workshop on Law’s Autonomy and Concepts of Human Dignity: call for papers
Dates: 7–13 July 2019
Venue: University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Please see website for further details.
IVR 2019: Special Workshop on Legal Fictions Revisited
Dates: 7–13 July 2019
Venue: University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Please see website for further details of IVR 2019.
Tax Policy Conference 2019
Date: 9 July 2019
Venue: University of Cambridge
Topic: 'Tax justice and tax law'
Please see website for details.
Applied Legal Storytelling
Dates: 9–11 July 2019
Venue: University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Please see website for details.
Socio-Legal Methodology Master Class: save the dates!
Dates: 29–30 July 2019
Venue: St Catherine's College, Oxford
See webpage for details. The SLSA is a co-sponsor of this event.
August
European Sociological Association Conference: Europe and Beyond – boundaries, barriers and belonging: call for contributions
Dates: 20–23 August 2019
Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University
The ISA Research Committee on the Sociology of Law Session: Democratic Deficit and Judicial Power in Europe Session – organised by Jacek Kurczewski and Mavis Maclean – invites contributions. Please see attachment and website for details. Closing date for submissions: 15 February 2019.
September
UACES 49th Annual Conference
Dates: 1–4 September 2019
Venue: Lisbon, Portugal
UACES is the academic association for contemporary European studies. See website for details.
Television drama, law and national identity
Date: 6 September 2019
Venue: University of Westminster, London
Please see attachment and website for details.
Decolonisation and the Law School: call for papers
Date: 13 September 2019
Venue: The Law School, University of Bristol
Please see website for details. Closing date: 31 March 2019.
Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and methods
Dates: 23–24 September 2019
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin
Please see webpage for details. This is an SLSA co-sponsored event.
December
LSAANZ Conference: Survive, thrive, die: call for abstracts
Dates: 5–7 December 2019
Venue: South Cross University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia
Please see website for details. Call closes: 31 July 2019.
2020
April
Legal Designs: Concepts, methods, norms and examples
Date: April 2020 tbc
Venue: City, University of London
Please see webpage for details. This is an SLSA Seminar Competition event.
June
Genocide and Law: Communicating through visual arts and language
Dates: 26–28 June 2020
Venue: Poznan, Poland
This is the 21st International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law and the 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics. Please see flyer for details.